God's intervention celebrated in song

Chapters 25 and 26 take the form of a song, in which the effect of
God's intervention is celebrated. Let us observe its principal
subjects. God is faithful. He accomplishes His purposes. He has
brought the city of human pride to nought through His power. All the
strong organisation of man's pride is destroyed. God has been the
strength of the poor among His people in the day of their distress,
and the power of the enemy has been brought low. He will execute
justice in Zion for all people. He will take away the veil that is
upon their heart. The resurrection of the faithful will have taken
place. I say "the faithful," for it is death swallowed up in
victory. Moreover, 1 Corinthians is applies it thus. The rebuke of His
people (Israel) shall be entirely taken away. The remnant (v. 9-12)
celebrate their deliverance; they had waited for God, and the power of
Jehovah shall be displayed on their behalf. Moab, their haughty
neighbour, shall be subdued. [1]

The praise of the remnant

In chapter 26 the remnant sing in praise of the character of this
deliverance. They have a strong city, but its bulwarks are the
salvation of God. The strength of man has no place here; it is the
foot of the poor that treads down the lofty city. It is the judgment
that the righteous God executes Himself. The remnant had waited for
Him in the way of His judgments. The long-suffering of grace was in
vain; it is only when the judgments of God are in the earth [2] that
the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. Even when the
hand of Jehovah was lifted up to strike, they did not see. But they
shall see, in spite of themselves, and they shall be ashamed. The
fire of Jehovah's jealousy shall devour them; they shall not rise. But
Israel shall be raised, as from the dead, by the power of Jehovah.

[1] Note, you have here all the results then of this judgment of God
and what is connected with it. The saints are raised, the power of
evil cast down from the heavens, the rebuke of Israel taken away, and
the veil of the covering taken off the face of all peoples. [2] I
apprehend "the earth" is a more contracted sphere than
"the world," the distinction especially lying in this, that
it is the sphere in which the revealed ways and government of God have
been brought before men. When this has been the case with the whole
world, it becomes the earth. The word "earth" is used for
the land of Israel and for the earth in the sense explained, and for
the whole earth as a scene ordered of God. Hence, when the scene with
which God has already dealt is judged, then it is that the wide world
at large will learn righteousness; not, though it ought to have been
carried there, while the present system of grace prevails.